Not really surprised, everything just keeps getting less and less repairable over time, regardless what it is

For small-scale stuff like that it will surely work. It’s unclear if it scales to youtube volumes. Maybe it doesn’t have to though, small scale stuff is valuable too.

Hosting video requires a lot more resources than hosting text, hyperlinks, or even pictures. It might be too much for individuals to self host video on a scale that could even distantly resemble how we use youtube today.

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller. IIRC Peertube does do some p2p stuff to try and share the burden a bit but I’ve also heard that it’s not really feasible to rely on that to scale.

They can try all they want. I see that occasionally on the websites people sell their stuff on. But usually even those people are willing to sell for a reasonable offer if their ad has been up for a long time.

In my country, a lot/most of the second hand selling is done by normal people

Depending on the type of product there may be several times the necessary amount already laying around.

that’s such a pedantic point

I don’t really care, both are pretty fucking bad

I am also considering switching from an iPhone to a fairphone (or potentially something else privacy-friendly). So far I’ve heard that banking apps might be a problem. Also digital identification software feels like something that might be restricted on an alternative OS or a more open device. Does unlocking the bootloader mess with these things?

I would imagine streaming services that allow downloads might be restrictive about what they run on. Many of them do allow downlods, I know Spotify, Netflix, and most audiobook apps do at least. But I really have no idea, and would be really happy to hear from somebody with experience.

AFAIK, this is the Google translate model that you can deploy locally https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-large

EDIT: seems like Whisper might be your best bet, it does speech-to-text + translation via a CLI that can be installed with pip: https://github.com/openai/whisper

Huggingface has loads of models for local speech to text and translation, see https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/speech_to_text

There is probably a nicer UI to use them than python coding, but I don’t know one.

1. 70% of eu residents live in ”urban clusters”. So I am ”only responding” for 70% of people, a number that will probably rise over time too.

2. Not only downtown/commercial/recreational areas need to be walkable. Walkability is good in all areas if possible. It makes everything simpler for everybody.

3. I am not arguing against the elcrification of cars, I am arguing for decreasing the number of cars over time simultaneously with elecrification.

Electric cars are cool and all but you can’t have walkable cities and simultaneously store one vehicle per person on their streets